Psychological Dimensions of Attitudes Toward Car and Public Transport: Symbolic-Affective, Instrumental, and Social Orderliness.

Author(s)
Hong Tan, V. & Fujii, S.
Year
Abstract

The first aim of this study was to do an exploratory investigation of dimensions of attitudes toward car and public transport in six Asian countries (Japan, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines). The second aim of the present paper was to find out determinants of the dimensions as well as of the possible differences of attitudes across countries. Attitudes toward car and public transport by 1,118 respondents in six countries were measured by 32 beliefs in form of pairs of opposite adjectives. The results of principle component analysis yielded three factors of attitudes toward car and public transport, namely: Symbolic affective, Instrumental, and Social orderliness. The result of comparison between attitudes toward car and public transport in each country indicated that the contrary between car and public transport may transcend cultures. ANOVA result also revealed that there were great divergences across countries in the all three dimensions of attitudes toward car and public transport.

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C 44181 (In: C 43862 CD-ROM) /72 ITRD E841763
Source

In: Compendium of papers CD-ROM 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 13-17, 2008, 33 p.

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